Austin Metcalf’s grief-stricken father stated the harrowing bodycam of his son’s deadly stabbing “killed him” because it was proven throughout Karmelo Anthony’s homicide trial earlier than expressing sorrow for the teenager killer.
Jeff Metcalf sat by way of the excruciating video contained in the courthouse in McKinney, Texas, the place it confirmed first responders making an attempt to avoid wasting the 17-year-old highschool soccer star, who died in his twin brother’s arms, after he had been stabbed throughout a observe meet on April 2, 2025.
“What killed me was the bodycam footage once I might hear [Austin’s twin] Hunter screaming ‘Oh, God, oh God. My brother, my twin,” Metcalf informed CBS Information on Wednesday after his judge-issued gag order was lifted.
“As a guardian, you all the time wish to shield your youngsters. And to listen to my son and the worry in his voice. And I’m not there to repair it.”
The video was so harrowing that Anthony, now 19, squirmed all through it, his eyes averting in the course of the notably graphic moments.
At one level, Anthony rubbed his eyes and his lawyer, sitting subsequent to him, patted him on the shoulder and likewise quivered.
Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in jail and faces a parole evaluate in 17 years – however Jeff believes the penalty ought to’ve been life imprisonment.
He vowed he could be in courtroom advocating in opposition to parole if he had been nonetheless alive.
“If I’m nonetheless alive, sure, I will probably be there in individual,” he stated. “If not, I’m going to make a video. If I’m handed on, that may be performed.”
Jeff stated he had a level of sorrow for his son’s killer as he sat within the courtroom – and stated he wished to forgive for his personal psychological state.
“I’ll even say this: I had just a little little bit of sorrow as a result of I’m human. And that poor boy is fixing to expertise a life that I might not want upon anybody,” he stated.
“Forgiveness was not for him. Forgiveness was for me. So I don’t carry the fashion, the hate, and that round; it’ll eat me up like most cancers.”
Anthony was transferred to the Wallace Pack Unit, close to Houston, Texas, on Wednesday morning.
Jeff Metcalf scolded Anthony throughout an emotional sufferer impression assertion, the place he stated, “Folks assume grief is disappointment, it isn’t. It’s rage. Pure unfiltered rage.”
He ordered the cowardly teen to “don’t look down” earlier than issuing a blistering tirade.
“You failed your dad and mom, you failed your self, and also you failed society … You don’t belong on this group,” he informed Anthony. “A chunk of me died with my son, and I’m anticipated to maintain dwelling.
“You’re going to jail. I forgave you the day it occurred. I don’t forgive what you probably did,” he added. “You may’t look me within the eyes however you may stab my f–king son!”
Anthony plunged the knife, a multi-tool with a serrated blade, into Metcalf’s coronary heart, leaving him with a 2-inch stab wound.
Anthony, a then-Centennial Excessive Faculty scholar, attacked after refusing to go away the rival Memorial Excessive Faculty tent on the meet. He refused to go away regardless of being ordered to fifteen instances.
However protests erupted exterior the courthouse in the course of the trial, with supporters of Anthony claiming the trial was racist in opposition to a younger black teen, who had acted in self-defense.
“This was by no means about race,” Metcalf stated. “It’s about proper and improper. The general public’s response sickens me … The ethical decay is scary.”
Throughout the sentencing section, the jury weighed the potential extenuating circumstances of “sudden ardour” — crimes dedicated within the warmth of the second that, in Texas, can imply lighter sentences.
The jury deliberated for about three hours earlier than delivering the responsible verdict Tuesday. The panel deliberated for one more three hours earlier than returning with the three-and-a-half-decade sentence.
Anthony’s mother Kala scoffed on the sentence, branding it “racist and biased,” and he’ll enchantment the homicide conviction.
